This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice
RULES:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
Find a snippet, short and sweet.
Post it
from page of:
Next to Last Stand by Craig Johnson
I hope you Westerners don’t mind, but this Custer stuff bores teh shit out of me.” Vic, uninterested in the conversation, reached out and turned over a Durant Courant, flipping a few pages as she sipped her drink. “you want to know what Custer was thinking there at the end?
The Bear volunteered. “Where di all these Indians come from?”
“Exactly.”
Freda Mans-Labianca
Not sure how to feel about it, being one of those Indians… I guess I need to read the whole scene before deciding the context. Happy weekend!
HCNewton
Was a tough scene to pick a snippet from (page 55 or 57 would’ve been easier, tbh), so I get what you’re saying. It’s a very pro-Indian/anti-Custer take, I assure you. “The Bear” in the quotation in Henry Standing Bear, and he spends a good deal of time in the book belittling both Custer and the battle (skirmish, he says, from the victor’s point of view).
Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote
How’s the book? Just from that extract, you could tell that the atmosphere is very Western hahaha
HCNewton
It’s a lot of fun–which is a relief, because the last couple in the series have tended not to be. It’s the latest in the Walt Longmire series–about a Sheriff in an incredibly small county (in population, anyway) in Wyoming. So, yeah, a pretty Western feel.
Becki
Hmm… sounds like a not necessarily likable guy 😉 I bet the book is interesting. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!
HCNewton
A lot of not necessarily likable guys, yeah 🙂